[ale] Re: du help?

[Stephen F Nicholas]

cd into the directory you wish to check and issue the following command:

du -ks * |sort -rn

Will give you usage in KB.  Hope this helps.

Steve

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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ed Landa wrote:

> > installs in less than 300MB. I wish there was a way to figure out - is there 
> > a way to du -m and have the directories and files listed in order by size?
> 
> du -m / | sort -n -r | more
> 
> Ed
> 
> 


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